Dickson Speaks at Kenyan Seminary's Graduation

Four years ago, fifty rural pastors from western Kenya gathered in a dirt-floored, tin-walled church building in Busia, Kenya. They had traveled by bus, or on foot, or hitched rides to participate in a seminar on the New Testament that I was teaching during my senior study leave from AU...They were called to preach. But, they needed—they desperately wanted—training.

After the seminar, a group of pastors met with me and said they wanted to continue their studies. I encouraged them to do that—and they did!..I went back twice to teach and help them organize...

This May, I went back again to celebrate with twenty-three of those pastors who were graduated with the equivalent of an undergraduate certificate from Ezra Christian College. I was privileged to speak at the graduation and when I reflected on the beginning four years ago—no resources, no money, no space, no teachers, no curriculum—I could hardly believe what God had done through the vision and perseverance and faith of these pastors in four years. 

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